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Associate Professor of Global Environmental Change
Geography Department
I Use R:
–Grolemund & Wickham, R for Data Science, O’Reilly 2016
This course is NOT a statistics course (see GEO 505, etc.).
Plan to spend approximately 5-11 hours each week:
R is a dialect of the S language developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T) by John Chambers et. al. (same group developed C and UNIX©)
Packages: sf, sp, maptools, rgeos, raster, ggmap
R can perform many GIS functions and workflows (often better than a GIS!).
Error: cannot allocate vector of size X MbBut there are other options…
Mac, Windows, Linux, and over the web…
Number of scholarly articles found in the most recent complete year (2018) for the more popular data science software. To be included, software must be used in at least 750 scholarly articles.